[f. BATTLE v.1] The action of the vb. BATTLE; fighting, conflict.

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c. 1300.  K. Alis., 100. Nyne and twenty ryche kynges, To make on him bataylynges.

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1860.  Froude, Hist. Eng., VI. 361. After forty years of battling with the stormy waters.

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1878.  P. Bayne, Purit. Rev., i. 10. The United Kingdom is now what the battlings of the seventeenth century made it.

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  attrib.  1856.  Kane, Arc. Exp., II. xxix. 289. The familiar localities of the whalers’ battling-ground.

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